We developed ... "an automated preservation experiment on born-digital raw photographs that combined controlled experimentation, integration of existing metadata extraction and image comparison tools, and implementations of state of the art image comparison algorithms. In the case of photographs, metrics and algorithms exist to validate conversion processes, but a direct comparison of the artifacts resulting from preservation actions to the original content is not possible. Hence, we rely on perceptual-level QA to validate conversions..."
Detailed description in Stephan Bauer and Christoph Becker. Automated Preservation: The Case of Digital Raw Photographs.
In: International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL'11). October 2011, Beijing, Chinahttp://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~becker/pubs/bauer_icadl2011.pdfhttp://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~becker/pubs/bauer_icadl2011.pdf

The primary goal of developing this is to understand how to automate planning experiments. Currently it is being converted into a Taverna workflow combining action, characterisation and QA that we will be able to share soon.